Associate Director, Paid Search
$97.375k/y-$139.965k/y
Starcom2 days ago
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OnsiteFull-timeSenior
Summary
Starcom is seeking an Associate Director, Paid Search to lead performance marketing initiatives in Chicago, IL. The role involves managing Performance Media teams and driving client and company objectives through effective paid search strategies.
About the Role
As the Associate Director, Paid Search, you will be responsible for overseeing client service delivery, ensuring best practices in media planning, and coordinating efforts across digital media channels. You will lead a team of Managers, Senior Analysts, and Analysts, and be involved in client meetings, performance reviews, and the development of operational efficiencies.
About You
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in marketing, advertising, business, engineering, statistics, economics, sociology, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of related experience within paid media.
- 2+ years of successful team management experience.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret campaign performance data.
Preferred:
- 2-4+ years of digital marketing experience with a focus on search engines (SA360, Google Ads, MS Ads, and/or Marin).
- Demonstrated understanding of online marketing principles.
- Strong leadership skills and comfort presenting ideas to senior stakeholders.
Benefits
- Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more.
- Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility.
- Tuition Assistance.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- 'Work Your World' Program allowing employees to work from anywhere for up to 6 weeks a year.
- Paid time off including Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, and more.
Starcom
With a history that dates back over 80 years, Starcom is a global communications planning and media leader. We are an agency still grounded in our founding principle that people are at the center of all we do. Each day, we apply this belief to harness the transformative power of data and technology to inspire and move people and business forward. With almost 7,000 employees in over 100 offices around the world, Starcom partners with the world's leading marketers and brands, including Bank of America, Best Buy, Kellanova, McDonald's, Novartis, Samsung, Visa, WK Kellogg Company and more.
Chicago, IL